User talk:BlueCaper

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We hope you enjoy editing Wiktionary and being a Wiktionarian. Conrad.Irwin 19:51, 29 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

(Sorry to write in Engilsh)

Hey, in order to prevent your otherwise good edits causing unnecessary cleanup work for other editors, I wanted to bring to your attention a persistent pattern of mistakes in your etymological edits: some of your edits have been causing entries to be categorized incorrectly (due to incorrect use of etymological templates). See the following edits I and others have made to revert these mistakes:

• 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

The problem here is that, as in the fourth edit here listed for example, you entered the derivation in the template parameters as e.g. borrowed en|la (correct), but afterwards the derivation is incorrectly given in the templates as la|grc and grc|he. Thus, the English entry Sinai was being categorized in Category:Latin terms derived from Ancient Greek and Category:Ancient Greek terms derived from Hebrew. (My edit fixed this, by causing the entry to rightly be categorized in Category:English terms derived from Ancient Greek and Category:English terms derived from Hebrew, respectively.)

So in short: note that the first parameter of the {{der}} (and its related templates) is always the language code of the language of the entry the etymology pertains to (in the above cases, English).

A related issue is found in the fifth edit listed above, in which you used {{der|grc|grc|Ἀπολλώνιος}}, presumably simply because you wanted to show the language link before the term, but what this causes is that the template made the English entry it was on, Apollos, be categorized in Category:Ancient Greek twice-borrowed terms. If you want to show a language code without further categorization shenanigans, use {{cog}}. — Mnemosientje (t · c) 10:59, 8 February 2019 (UTC)Reply

RMaung (WMF) 14:31, 9 September 2019 (UTC)Reply

RMaung (WMF) 19:12, 20 September 2019 (UTC)Reply

RMaung (WMF) 17:02, 4 October 2019 (UTC)Reply

Hello BlueCaper,

Really sorry for the inconvenience. This is a gentle note to request that you check your email. We sent you a message titled "The Community Insights survey is coming!". If you have questions, email [email protected].

You can see my explanation here.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:48, 25 September 2020 (UTC)Reply